Libraries today play a key role in embracing diverse community and supporting social justice, and yet we often fall behind or lack clear strategies when dealing with certain marginalised sections of our communities – including those experiencing homelessness.

This 4 week course will help you understand the resources and skills to develop helpful and rewarding library relationships with people experiencing homelessness, and the community which supports them.

We all love them. Now you can learn how to create them, in this 4 week course.

Get your messages, data and information across, at a glance, through visual representation. Now THAT's a valuable skill!

Who's a data visualisation wiz? You are!

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 20

21 May - 11 June 2019

Register by 7 May 2019

Further information and registration coming soon.

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Community Engagement

Your library or information service might be doing some great stuff, but if it's not what your communities are interested in, or isn't useful to them, delivered in the wrong way or place, or they simply don't know about it - you quickly become irrelevant and your funders will start asking uncomfortable questions...

Sharpen your client focus and accountability!

This 4 week course will extend your skills at identifying and responding to the needs of your users, and ensuring you deliver what they want, when and where they want it - and that they know about it.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 20

23 July - 19 August 2019

Register by 9 July 2019

Further information and registration coming soon.

Online

Teaching, Training, Facilitating

Teaching others is an art, and a science. Do you understand the best ways to teach something new to a particular group, or individual?

This 4 week course will help you understand some of the basic principles underlying teaching and learning at any age, and will improve your skills as a trainer.

This course will meet the requirements of the national Training Package Unit TAEDEL301 Provide work skill instruction.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 20

27 August - 23 September 2019

Register by 13 August 2019

Further information and registration coming soon.

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STEM Programming in Libraries

Libraries are places of exploration and investigation - a natural place to support STEM - however it's easy to feel like an "accidental STEM librarian" whether through lack of experience, confidence or support.

This 4 week course will help you understand the resources and skills needed to develop strong STEM programming in your library.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 20

3 September - 30 September 2019

Register by 27 August 2019

Further information and registration coming soon.

Online

Open Access and Information Services

New Course!

…libraries are key actors in information politics. They are central – both practically and symbolically – to the idea that everyone should have meaningful access to information (IFLA blog Libraries and the politics of information, Jan 2019)

Open access has been a major consideration for libraries for a few years now, but debates and actions heated up significantly in 2018 with widespread screenings of the documentary Paywall and significant initiatives in Europe suggesting one way forward. Libraries are key players in the debates which also involve publishers, academics and the actions of Robin Hood-like pirates, and which, in 2019, are likely to get even hotter. As one of the ten themes making up our TIK campaign, its certainly a major focus for ALIA this year. Where do Australian information services fit into this ecosystem? What are the solutions being brokered here?

Join us for a 4 week in depth look at the issues, the arguments, the potentials and the pitfalls from a library and information services perspective.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 20

October 2019

Further information and registration coming soon.

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Libraries and Metadata

Discoverability is fundamental to managing any collection. Understanding and using metadata effectively ensures your resources are connected, relevant and easily found both on the web and in the broader networked world.

Learn more about current practices, and what's around the corner like BIBFRAME, and linked open data.

This 3 week course will extend your knowledge of this developing area of resource description and access.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 15

22 October - 11 November 2019

Register by 8 October 2019

Further information and rgistration coming soon.

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Library services for people with a disability: access and inclusion

Libraries pride themselves as great equalisers. But do your physical layouts, resources, staff, equipment and policies really support clients with a disability? And what sort of disabilities?

Might be time to have another look...

This 4 week course will guide you to useful resources, and help you to refine best-practice approaches, when aiming for inclusive participation and access to your services.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 20

5 November - 2 December 2019

Register by 22 October 2019

Further information and registration coming soon.

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Cataloguing Basics

The great challenge of this digital age we find ourselves in will be to ensure that what we do - the collection, preservation and management of information is done in a consistent manner which ensures it is accessible in the future.

Cataloguing remains one of the best tools we have to guarantee that information, irrespective of its format or content, can be accessed. This 6 week course will cover all the bases. Great for those needing a refresh, or for beginners.

This course will meet the requirements of the National Training Package unit of competency BSBLIB403.

Participating in the ALIA PD Scheme? PD points = 30

RDA for Practitioners will also be offered during 2019, dates to be confirmed.